Combination-tool



H. B. KEIPER, DECD. L. R. K'EIPER, N. K. |.ONG AND G. HAMMOND, sxecurons.

COMBINATION T'OOL.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 28. 1920..

Patented May 10, 192 1.

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HENRY B. KEIPER, 0E LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA; LUCY R. KEIPEB, NANCY KEIEER LONG, AND GEORGE HAMMOND, EXECUTORS or SAID HENRY B. KEIPEE, DEcEASED, ASSIGNORS TO CHAMPION BLOWER a FORGE COMPANY, OF LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA, A CORPORATION OF PENNSYLVANIA.

COMBINATION-TOOL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 10, 1921 Application'filed Feburary 28, 1920; Serial No; 362,051.

T 0 all whom it'mag concern Be it knownthat I, HENRY B. KEIPER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Lancaster, inthe county of Lancaster and State of Pennsylvania, have invented'certain new and useful Improvements in Combination-Tools; and I do herebydeclare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention',such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use'the same.

This invention relates to combination tools, and more particularly to a convertible machine comprising a rotary blower and forge, an anvil, and vise and pipe jaws to 'gether with means for attaching interchangeably to the movablemember of the 'vise, either a drill or a grinder or other revolving tool."

The objects of the invention are to provide an improved device o'fthe character referred to having a combined anvil and 'vise member hinged to a fixed standard and adapted to serve asan ordinary anvil and as the stationary jaw of the vise and also as a means against which an article to be operated on by the drill or other tool may be held in proper position for the action of the drill or other tool.

The invention will first be hereinafter more particularly described, with reference to the accompanying drawings, which form apart of this specification, and then pointed out in the claims at theend of the description.

' In said'drawings, s Figure 1 is'a side elevation of a combination tool embodying my invention; the standard which supports the hinged anvil being partly brokenaway to show the anvil locking means V Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same, partly in section; the hinged vise jaw being shown in a vertical p, position so that an article may be placed against it and held in proper position for the action of the drill Tor other tool; the lower portion of the frame being broken away;

Fig; 3 is a fragmentary detail view partly broken away, showing'the hinge connection between the anvil plate and its supporting standard; and

Fig. a is a sectional plan view taken on the line X-X of Fig.3.

Referring to said drawings, in which the same reference numerals are used to denote corresponding parts in differentviews, lde- 'notesthe machine frame,'2 a rotary blower supported thereon and adapted to be operated by the driving mechanism used for operating a drill or other'tool, asset forth in my Patent No. 1,328,250 granted January 13, 1920, for a somewhat similarcombinationtool. 3 denotes a hearth or fireplace, and t a standard upon which is mounted a combined 'anviland v-isememberb; said V186 member having a jaw 6 integral therewith and adapted to cooperate with a movable jaw 7 the latter being preferably integral with an upright portion 8which is carried by horizontal supporting and guiding rods 9 and 10, slidably fitted in sockets or openings which extend through the standard 4: one of said openings being shown in section and marked 12 in the drawings. An adjusting screw 11 carried by the movable jaw or upright 8 in which it is swiveled, passes through a stationary nut or threaded element firmly secured to or integral with thesta'ndard'. Said adusting screw is provided with adetach'able handle 13, whereby the movable vise mem ber may be caused to approach or recede from-the stationarymember'by turning said handle for the purposeofclamping an article between the jaws of the'vise or for other cut, and said shaft 14: also has a projecting pin 14 thereon for engagement with a recess in the socket of a crank handle 16 for rotating said shaft.

My present invention resides essentially in the hinged anvil member or three-in-one part whereby the operations of clamping, drilling or boring, grinding, etc., are car.- ried on with the anvil-plate arranged to serve as an ordinary anvil when in a horizontal position, as in Fig. 1, or as a support for an article to be bored, as in Fig. 2. The

device is made ready for drilling by merely raising the anvil plate, without the trouble or expense incident to using separate parts either of which when not in use, is liable to be lostor mislaid and thus render the machine useless for the operations performed through cooperation of the missing part; consequently if both removable and interchangeable parts, such as heretofore used, are lost, the machine must be put aside until new parts can be obtained, thus losing both time and labor.

At the inner end of the anvil an openended slot or recess 22 is formed to receive a correspondingly shaped protuberance or lug 21 on the underside of the anvil plate,

whereby the two parts are locked together when the anvil is in a horizontal position. The protuberance at its inner end has an inclined'undercut surface adapted for cooperation with a correspondingly shaped portion of the recess 22, in the standard 4.

When using the anvil in a horizontal position endwise movement is permitted sui cient to cause the inclined undercut edge of the lug 21 to engage the inclined undercut edge of the recess 22, thereby securing the anvil 5 in interlocked engagement with the standard 4. lVhen it is desired to use the machine for drilling purposes it is only necessary to move the anvil 5 endwise toward the member 7 and raise the member 5 on its hinge connection to the position shown in Fig. 2 and thereby adapt it to serve as a limiting stop or stationary means against which the article to be drilled may be held. The desired movement of the anvil member is permitted by means of an oblong slot 20 in the hinged end of the anvil in which the pivot bolt 19 is fitted and adapted to slide the length of the slot when the anvil is moved.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to protect by Letters Patent is:

1. In a device of the character described, a pivotally mounted combined anvil, vise jaw and back stop for a drill or other tool, adapted to be supported in either a substantially horizontal or vertical position, in combination with a movable vise jaw and means for moving the same toward and from the anvil in either position of the latter.

2. In a combination tool, a hinged anvil mounted on a stationary support and carrying a vise jaw, a longitudinally movable vise jaw and cooperating movable means for clamping objects between said jaws when the hinged jaw is in a horizontal position, and between the movable vise jaw and the body of the anvil when the latter is in a vertical position.

3. In combination with a supporting frame and a cooperative movable vise jaw, a combined stationary jaw and anvil pivotally supported at one end and having a lug at the other end engaging a recess in said support whereby said anvil and vise member is locked in operative position.

4. A combination tool comprising a standard, an anvil pivotally supported upon said standard and adapted to serve as a vise member and to be turned upon its pivot to func tion as a back stop for a drill or other tool, and a movable vise member and means for moving the same toward and from the anvil.

5. In a combination tool, a combined anvil and vise jaw pivotally mounted upon a standard having an undercut recess therein; said anvil member having a lug thereon adapted to engage said recess and hold the anvil in a horizontal position to adapt it to be used as either a vise jaw or anvil, in combination with a movable vise jaw and means for moving the latter toward and from said anvil, together with means for holding the anvil in a vertical position to adapt it to serve as a back stop for a drill or other tool.

6. A combination tool comprising a supporting frame, a standard mounted on said frame, a combined anvil and vise member on said standard hinged at one end and having an interlocking connection with said standard whereby it may be locked thereto when in a horizontal position and may be raised to a substantially vertical position to serve as a back stop for a drill or other tool, and a movable vise jaw and tool carrying member,

together with means for moving said vise jaw and tool carrying member toward and from said anvil.

7 A combinationtool comprising a supporting frame, a standard mounted on said frame and having spaced openings therethrough, parallel rods slidably fitted in said openings and supporting at their outer ends a movable vise jaw and tool carrying member, an adjusting screw between said rods substantially vertical position to serve as a 10 engaging an interiorly threaded part on back stop for a drill or other tool.

said standard and having an operating han- In testimony whereof I affix my signature dle or hand Wheel on its free end, and a in the presence of two Witnesses. combined anvil and vise member on said HENRY B KEIPER' standard hinged at one end and having an interlocking connection With said standard l Vitnesses:

whereby it may be locked thereto When in a A. KENDIG, horizontal position and may be raised to a ARTHUR M. SMITH. 

